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A lot of these things are niche. Drone delivery is doing quite a bit for medical logistics in some African countries like Rwanda and Ghana. Expanding dramatically to the US depends strongly on regulatory improvement. But even incremental improvements to battery technology will be significantly enabling. A doubling of battery specific energy will enable a quadrupling of the area that a single drone site can service, for instance. I think it has significant potential if the FAA can get its act together.

I entered 3D printing 7 years ago professionally, but I've been surprised by how this has continually improved even in the last 5 years. Quality for entry level machines has improved dramatically and ease of use, etc. Which doesn't change your fundamental point that it'll remain niche. But there are some patents from Stratasys and others that will expire soon (it was a bunch of FDM patents expiring that led to the first wave of 3D printer hype starting ~10 years ago), and that should help expand the market significantly. But you're right we won't be manufacturing everything with 3D printing.

A lot of these things are over-hyped, but can still produce long-term value. Just not like trillions of dollars a year type of value.
"All you need to know about sudo and frankly most other pieces of the Linux userspace is that it is undertested"

Fair enough but what do you recommend?

Me, I try to keep people out of my systems that I don't trust. This particular snag needs local access but I will grant you that my web server or other exposed service might provide a local interface.

Instead of throwing your hands up and screaming "crap" you do your risk assessment and attempt to mitigate as best you can. I read a lot of blogs and have a fair amount of logging and analytics lying around the place (and that's just at home).

Fairly recently I found that my wife's car had loose nuts on the front nearside wheel. That was a change to fix a worn tyre for obvious safety reasons but for whatever reason the fixings were not done up properly. I think they were done up finger tight but a distraction caused the mechanic to forget to use a spanner (wrench) to finish the job to spec. The wheel seemed to work fine but you would get a low rumble sound on corners. It was not a trivial to diagnose fault because you had to notice it before failure - I'm a (non chartered) Civ Eng and IT bod but not a mechanic. There is a minimally screwed on plastic cover that stopped the bolts from flying out - not much.

A car wheel is a thing we can all look at and see that the four bolts are not working properly, once you remove the plastic cover and see them wobble.

Now that is what you can do to protect yourself (risk assess, mitigate etc.) However there should also be something that protects "civilians" and I think that is what is missing. I'm not too sure how we do that.
I’ve been using the demo for a few months now — it is impressive software.
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It's more that they're equally out of tune in every key. What actually sounds "best" for a given key (though certainly a little strange and unusual given the pervasiveness of equal temperament) would sound quite out of tune in other keys.
If you read the article FtM people dissociate too - the dissociation is the point. Why do you club this with pedophilia or think it's going to be the next narrative?
I'd love to try a split ergo keyboard, but 1) I have no interest in building one and 2) I have no interest in paying $300 for a fully-assembled one. There's got to be untapped market potential for fully assembled ergonomic split keyboards costing less than $300.
You patent the necessary later steps, not the prior art itself. Companies have a pretty good method.
What I really want is something that can validate a pcb layout for correctness, so say, high speed lines are validated to not have issues given a particular manufacturer's stackup. I would like to build my own gigabit ethernet router with maybe specific hardware that doesn't come on a normal router.
Uhm... Tor Browser? Already exists, based on Firefox, with features merged upstream?
Thanks for pointing that out. Sorry for adding to an offtopic, flamewar inspiring subthread. I hoped providing some sources for the GP's comment might spur on some more productive discussion and i genuinely thought the other commenter was asking in good faith about sources for discussion. I was also genuinely curious as to the harsh reaction

I do see now the flamewar aspect to it and didn't really stop to consider the initial topic of the article when I responded. I was just trying to focus on the actual topic of the commenter's statement and kinda got lost in searching up articles. I was hoping to maybe bring some data and information into the discussion that might steer it in a more productive direction.

It is an issue that could productively be discussed. It seems it didn't end up being the case though and probably wasn't the most appropriate comment thread to do so on.
How do you use the internet with JS turned off? Every time I try doing this, I undo it five seconds later because of so many sites breaking instantly. (I sometimes browse the web with w3m; sites blocking you because of no JS happens often)
Personally, I think it's a side effect of globalization. All else equal, large companies beat small companies by economy of scale. It follows that larger companies beat large companies. The inevitable outcome is an aggregation of tons of small companies into a small number of very large companies.

That changes 2 things for a SaaS company:

1) Large companies pay more (in absolute amounts). They are also likely to be less of a support burden, since they're a single company so they should be relatively uniform. They're unlike to ask for both AWS and GCP support, but the 1,000 small businesses you need to replace that revenue are likely to ask for AWS, GCP and Azure cumulatively.

2) Small companies are more likely to fail. It's not enough to create a competitive product. They have to create a competitive product at a price that allows them to overcome the economy of scale. Creating an equivalent to Google is great. You're probably still going to pay more per-search than Google is, so they can cut prices until you can't keep up.

> I wonder where this will lead to in the big picture, when more and more small companies can simply no longer justify paying for those subscriptions.

I would argue that we're seeing the fruition of that. The answer is that you go ahead and pay for it. You hope that you can get enough growth to be a company that can afford to pay for it before you run out of money. Or you get acquired by a company whom you're more valuable to, and they can afford to pay for it.

I don't see a viable path forward for small businesses under current circumstances. They can't compete on cost, big businesses are getting really good at emulating small business features (e.g. Spotify does a good job of recommending new music to me, so I don't need the record store to do that), and people are adapting to interfacing with machines instead of humans. I struggle to think of an advantage local stores have other than being able to get the thing you want in less than a day or two.
Cool! Been wanting to try Tilt Brush, wonder if it'll build on Linux...
What's super crazy is that if it's an autoimmune problem then the idea that vaccines cause autism might actually be right for a very small percentage of the population. If that were to be true (a HUGE if) and we could figure out the precursor markers then we could exempt the folks who need exemption and still keep herd immunity by vaccinating all the folks who wouldn't be harmed.
I mean, it's pretty pointless anyway. How long did HDCP 2 last? A couple years?
> Websites can only make inferences based on the absence of unique cross-site cookies if you are configuring your browser in non-default ways.

But if the defaults don't block those cookies, then the alternative is that you have unique cross-site cookies, which are an instant game over. Having a site make inferences about you is preferable to having a unique cross-site cookie set that can perfectly identify you across multiple websites.

> [...] and I wish that more took your careful approach here when recommending "privacy" setups to others.

Similarly, I appreciate your approach and concerns, and you are correct that browser uniqueness is a valid concern, one that many people don't consider. But I fully stand by my advice. Your first priority as a user who cares about privacy needs to be blocking unique cross-site cookies. If you have them set, it's just game over, it doesn't matter whether or not someone is fingerprinting you somewhere else.

Your priority list should be:

A) block cookies and persistent storage that can track you across sites.

B) block tracking scripts from ever executing at all.

C) keep your browser from standing out.

D) etc...

uBlock Origin is the easiest, simplest way that you can make progress towards addressing A and B. To your overall points about stuff like advertising networks looking to prevent fraud, this is exactly why it's important to block advertising networks; they're the low hanging fruit that's most likely to be trying to fingerprint you at any given moment. To your point about it standing out that you don't have certain query params set, those query params are unique identifiers and referrers. If you don't delete them it's game over, you have been identified. You can't blend into the crowd if you have a tracker attached to you.

There are very few one-size-fits-all approaches to security/privacy, but I fully stand by the belief that virtually every single person running Chrome or Firefox should have uBlock Origin installed. I don't have much nuance or any caveats to add to that statement: block unique identifiers first, worry about fingerprinting second. You don't need to worry as much about your browser standing out if you block the majority of tracking scripts from reaching your browser in the first place, and in most (not all, but most) cases you should be more worried about 3rd-party tracking on the web than 1st-party tracking. That's just where the current incentives are right now, and it's important that we calibrate our threat models accordingly.
Check out walk[1]. It does exactly this. Lets you define a graph of dependencies in any language of your choice.

[1](https://github.com/ejholmes/walk/)
I really like the term purity spiral. It captures it quite well.

Alas, it seems this thread was flagged. Ironic given the content. But I'll continue to share that article about the purity spiral with others, it captures a lot of the things I've seen quite well.
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An employee can claim that politics, affiliation, etc. was a pretext for firing based on religious beliefs.
I was asked this same question in a HN comment a week ago or so. A few days later I was filling the coffee grinder and again annoyed that it'll hold most but not all of a 12oz bag of coffee...

Then I realized I could easily design and print an extension to the hopper to hold more. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4733166

If you want to get into 3D printing, it's hard to beat the Creality CR-6 SE at $400. Or if you want to take more of a journey, a Creality Ender 3 Pro at $200, and upgrade the motherboard, extruder, and add a bed leveler. I did the latter, and it is a great little printer. Reminds me of back when I was a teen and doing car modding.
In addition to the value of repeatability, it’s just being a good human to show and share your work.
They can say what they want but if their language is a close relative to Punjabi they are fools if they don't realize there are about 100 million people out there who understand them
Around that topic of ergonomic tools, I've been wanting to try a vertical mouse.

As a designer, my right hand is over the mouse a lot of the time. I have a chronic pain on my right wirst, although, I not certain of the cause.

Anyone her has experience with this?
I'm no fan of Youtube but...not being able to increase the playback speed is highly sought after when I watch videos on any sites (like the OP on att.com). Here is YT's version of the same video [1].

Edit: I removed the link because the pixelation was unbearable.

[1] - removed
That’s with windchill.
Most food research science done to date is pretty shaky - I base it based on info shared by specific professionals, my own anecdotal experience, as well as others'.
I think most people who think drone delivery is going to be huge don’t realize how loud drones are. Once it reaches any level of scale there will be noise pollution groups wanting to shut it down.
It takes me about a minute to recalibrate for a different keyboard, although I'm occasionally making typos for another 30-ish minutes (nothing tragic - most often happens when I reach for a somewhat rare key, like ~, `, =, +, etc).

So for me at least it's pretty quick. Having radically different keyboard layouts is actually helpful because it's really clear (to your muscle memory) that you're doing something very different.

I use the ErgoDox that I built from plans I found online, a MS Natural Ergonomic 4000, my laptop keyboard, and rectangular Dell keyboards for random computers at work.

If you've got the time/money and it looks interesting I'd encourage you to try it. If it works out you'll be happy, and if doesn't you'll at least know that it doesn't work for you. But hey, it's your choice, for sure :)
Ads are frustrating but this can lead to even more irrelevant and therefore more frustrating ads.
The bigger a piece of software is, the more opportunities there are for bugs. And the correlation isn't linear.

For home users there is doas, also written by a OpenBSD developer. It's really simple, but I never found anything to be missing for my use case. All the logging and auditing and whatnot can (and imo should) be performed somewhere else.
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I don't get why there are Top Sites, Bookmarks, Bookmarks Toolbar (a special thing), and Collections. There are way too many ways to manage saved urls.Then providing access to exactly 0 of them when in the address bar is even more vexing.
I've found that input methods & speed decide how "consumptive" a device is.

Great example are tablets are a pita to type on for me, so I can't use them for much other than playing Go and watching youtube. Even searching wikipedia is too laborious because I don't like the typing.
Even Ferrari and Lamborghini are putting electric motors in their vehicles, crazy world.
We are a Gitlab client, and very happy with their service. I hope that their business model succeeds, and am happy to be supporting them.

The Bronze --> Premium transition seems to me to be a valid price restructuring, and this will prompt us to upgrade to Premium rather than downgrade to Free.

However,

- Ultimate seems like minimal value for substantial extra cost. There's no way we could ever justify it.

- The collaboration model is terrible. We would love to introduce lots of our clients to gitlab as part of a collaboration - thereby increasing gitlab's mindshare, install base, and potential customer base - but the price tag attached to inviting a previously-free-tier collaborator doesn't make sense for us.

- Premium needs to include Jira-killing features. Do that and we're yours probably for life.
I know someone that hates "for" loops and views them as "unclean". I find this aggravating.
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> Companies may move a portion of their cash into Bitcoin as a hedge against inflation.

Sure, but Bitcoin isn't even a particularly good way to hedge against inflation, given the wild volatility and speculative nature of the investment.

There are any number of other ways to hedge against inflation.

This is why "If we could capture 1% of the TAM..." arguments are flawed: They're worthless without an explanation for why this particular product is more likely to attract 1% of the TAM than comparable products.
I added jupyter notebook support to my nsi[1] crate via evcxr.

It allows you to do a 3D (offline) render with 3Delight (on AWS, if you want) – directly into a notebook.

Here is an example notebook[2].

I haven't managed to update the image dynamically while it's rendering (there's no support for that in evcxr). If anyone knows how to do this, I'd be keen to add that too.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/nsi

[2] https://github.com/virtualritz/nsi/blob/master/examples/jupy...
Yeah but you, the developer, need to provide the hash of the script being downloaded, work that’s easy to miss.
Zack Freedman's youtube channel is gold and he recently released a pretty comprehensive (and hilarious) tutorial on building your own mechanical keyboard as a getting started project into building electronics. Split keyboards are also mentioned.

How to Build MECHANICAL KEYBOARDS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYcNi9hKxDk
I was watching a documentary on electricity and it said how Volta used nature as inspiration.

The alternating pattern of a Torpedo fish's muscle cells were the basis for the voltaic pile. The discs were mimicking how the many small cells of the fish combined small amounts of electricity into a larger amount.
There are softupdate filesystem too.
They are less common now, but still exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_updates
I hope I'm wrong but if this type of tracking is not going to be possible, then more irrelevant ads start showing up and ends up as even more unpleasant experience?
There is a bigger story here is that EVERY business is show business now — it’s just that not everyone recognizes it yet.
Kinesis makes them for ~170 if you don’t want tenting or a palm rest
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Wow. This is really neat. I’m going to give this a shot!
In theory we have this x,y coordinate system that shows the cost of a feature and the value of the feature. Which is great if you are living in a bubble by yourself, or some similar products. Making someone decide between CI and shared document writing is a terrible choice to have to make.

The other way to present this graph is the classic triangle, Cheap, Good, Fast, but the way we typically use that triangle suffers the same failure mode, because 'expensive' is some weird variant on cheap vs fast, as represented by Brook's Law.

I think the Discord Team has a different interpretation of this - the maintenance cost of the feature matters more to the user than the initial development cost. I can deliver you a feature now that will cost $X a month to operate, or I can deliver you that feature in a couple of months and it'll cost 1/10th that amount. Which means we can offer it to users at a price point they can afford.

It feels like Gitlab has, like so many of us, a bunch of features that create opportunity costs that the customers can't stomach.
Thanks for your clear and concise answer. I think everything you said makes sense.

At the end of the day, we can check our logs to see who's using it and that's about it.

For v2, we can start doing some of those things you mentioned -- we didn't do them for v1.
I'm sorry, but this hand-picked list of exceptional people with light symptoms of ASD is minimizing a spectrum that includes some very serious disorders. Bringing out Bill Gates, with speculated mild Asperger's, is simply not a reasonable argument that "ASD can be good".

For perspective: Arguing "I know I guy who needs to squint to see things that are far away but he's an amazing pianist" doesn't add to a discussion about early detection of vision impairment and vision loss.
> I think a broken heart, </3, essentially as a downvote,

God please no, that's the reason I love Twitter. The day people start downvoting Tweets because they disagree, instead of replying, is the day I make my account private, or leave the service.
Power of the hive mind - the cloud of angry bees killing a bear. The WSB today is a fascinating read, kind of a small window into that mind. One thing when crowd decides to virtually character/twitter assassinate somebody, and another when they intentionally impact several $B losses to hedge funds (classic asymmetry - a bee can lose all its money, few grands, etc. and the loss of a number of bees wouldn't really affect the power of the hive while the single loss of a few $B can be a mortal wound to the bear). A power just a couple steps below say changing a government. No wonder that the best minds in tech are working on harnessing that power.
If nothing prevents scaling up a scale-out database does that not also mean nothing prevents scaling out a scale-up database? Aren't all scaling problems trivial at that point?
In a WeWork kind of way. They've raised $1B in funding.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/peloton-interactive/...

But they are profitable, something WeWork will never say.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/peloton-produces-profit-fo...
Medicine has gone through numerous revolutions. Not asserting the truth or falsity of the comment above, but it's not unreasonable to think we're missing large pieces of the puzzle. I'm reliably informed that a similar revolution is happening right now with immunology.
You seem to be more qualified than I am, but Relativity is 3D printing the entire rocket, which to me is really impressive [0]

Small launch market is a tough one, especially given SpaceX's cost advantage, but Relativity keeps racking up investment. It's been rumored that their 3D expertise make them future-proof in case plan A, launching rocket, doesn't pan out.

[0] - https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/the-worlds-...
It’s bombarding me with body armor ads too. I’ve never searched for or talked about guns, qanon, or election stuff on my fb browser.
Not sure this is specific to one political group.
Yeah I found the Evoluent to be perfect for me. I actually had to give up mousing with my right wrist as it got too badly damaged. So now I use my left hand with a vertical mouse. Was an interesting transition period.

I think you will notice a loss of precision though. For example I could never play an FPS at my best with a vertical mouse. But for $80-100 definitely worth a try for your health.
Some other fine suggestions here, but I'll also mention that luigi should do this fine as well.
Author here: fun to see this on the home page!

I had so many of my family, friends, and beta users ask me this question that I decided to do some research and write it up.

If you've got suggestions, or find any bit confusing, I'm all ears.
You don't think it's possible that ads make people want things they don't need?

Or to put it another way, you believe advertising is not effective at all on anyone?
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Some of us think being tricked into purchasing things we would easily like but don’t need is worse.
I built an Iris split ergo keyboard, and it's great. Most of the cost comes from the switches and keycaps (I used Zilents and a PMK set), but honestly spending a lot of money on something I probably spent >10 hours touching each day is totally worth it.

It also takes a while to get used to the lack of keys, particularly arrow keys, and various brackets for programming. However, training myself to use layers rather than moving my hand around to push them makes me much more efficient. I plan to move to a design with even fewer keys, and since the switches and keycaps can be moved to another board, it won't be as expensive.
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But the reason you're not brute forcing passwords on your bank's e-banking system isn't because you can't or because they are super secure, it's because if you do you'll probably go to jail.

Also, good regulation is important to keep the big dogs on a leash and to have something to go after them when they don't behave.

Technological solutions will of course come, but you also need regulation, especially until the technological solutions come.